1861 - Asher, Jeremiah - File No. A754
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Asher, Jeremiah, 1812-1865
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Asher was born on October 13, 1812 in North Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut to free parents, Reuel and Jerusha Asher. Reuel's father was an African named Gad who, at the age of four, had been captured on the coast of Guinea and shipped to captivity in Connecticut. Purchased by a ship carpenter named Titus Bishop in Connecticut, Gad was treated relatively well as a slave. After some forty years of bondage he was offered his freedom if he would fight in the American Revolution. Gad seized ...
